Excellent opportunity to work with a highly successful healthcare company where you will support the Procurement Operations Manager and Head of Procurement to deliver profitable external service contracts for biomedical and endoscopy equipment.
As Senior Buyer you will:
1. Lead negotiations of contract pricing and terms of maintenance contracts.
2. Manage the suppliers and contracts in line with the supplier relationship management (SRM) programme
3. Oversee all biomed Private and NHS sites by supporting other team members.
4. Deploy good decision process and techniques to optimise profit and value and balance the risk from the external spend
5. Support team members with company bids and pricing exercises from a procurement perspective
6. Support the business and team on the growing knowledge and capability, developing a clear process of engagement and ways of working.
7. Support the POM in agreeing internal SLAs with our internal customers and being first line contact for the buyers with standard business escalations.
8. Ensure that all maintenance contracts records are accurately maintained, and prepare agreed monthly reports on external service contract spend and performance against SLAs.
9. Supporting buyers for decision making within agreed limits, especially in the absence of Procurement Operations Manager.
10. Assisting the POM to performance manage contract output to ensure quali...